The Sky Is Falling, also known as Chicken Little, Henny Penny or Chicken Licken is an old fable about a chicken (or a hare in early versions) who believes the sky is falling. The phrase, "The sky is falling," has passed into the English language as a common idiom indicating a hysterical or mistaken belief that disaster is imminent. This usage is generally derogatory.

"We have either a president who is too dishonest to restrain himself from invoking World War III about Iran at least six weeks after he had to have known that the analogy would be... irresponsible hyperbole, or we have a president too transcendentally stupid not to have asked... whether the fairy tales he either created... were still even plausible

Keith Olbermann suggests that "we have either a president who is too dishonest to restrain himself from invoking World War III about Iran at least six weeks after he had to have known that the analogy would be fantastic ... or we have a president too transcendentally stupid not to have asked ... whether the fairy tales ... were remotely plausible."

"The sky is falling! The sky is falling," Chicken Little cried. And from this fairy tale many generations of Americans learned the moral truth that things are not always what they seem. We all chuckled over the absurd notion, proposed by a cowardly barnyard animal, that life as we know it was about to end. And all because Chicken Little – that gene